Xavier Jean, Johnson Simona, Cohen David
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Henri Laborit Hospital Centre, Poitiers, France.
CNRS UMR 7295, Équipe CoCliCo, Cognition and Learning Research Center, Poitiers, France.
Front Psychol. 2023 Aug 2;14:1173627. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1173627. eCollection 2023.
Self-consciousness develops through a long process, from pre-reflexive consciousness relying on body perception, to "meta" self-awareness. It emerges from the imitative experience between children and their peers. This experience linked to the capacity to test structural similarities between oneself and others, is addressed according to the concept of interpersonal affordance. We hypothesize that the opportunity for co-actors to engage in a process of interpersonal coordination is underlined by their similarity in terms of morphological, behavioral and motor features. This experience can sustain the emergence of new affordances for objects for each co-actor, as well as new affordances in terms of joint actions. We apply this idea in the context of peer-mediated interventions (PMI) in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). We argue that, in PMI, an encounter between children with autism and similar peers would foster the opportunity to engage in a spontaneous process of interpersonal coordination. This process would enable the development of self-consciousness and the emergence of perception of interpersonal, self and other's affordances for children with autism. We conclude that metrics to assess morphological, behavioral and motor similarity should then be defined and used in future studies to test our hypothesis in children with autism versus TD children or between children with autism.
自我意识是通过一个漫长的过程发展起来的，从依赖身体感知的前反思意识，到“元”自我意识。它产生于儿童与其同伴之间的模仿体验。这种与测试自我与他人之间结构相似性的能力相关的体验，是根据人际可供性的概念来探讨的。我们假设，共同行动者在人际协调过程中进行互动的机会，是由他们在形态、行为和运动特征方面的相似性所强调的。这种体验可以为每个共同行动者维持新的物体可供性的出现，以及在联合行动方面的新可供性。我们将这个想法应用于自闭症谱系障碍（ASD）的同伴介导干预（PMI）背景中。我们认为，在PMI中，自闭症儿童与相似同伴之间的相遇将促进参与自发人际协调过程的机会。这个过程将有助于自闭症儿童自我意识的发展以及人际、自我和他人可供性感知的出现。我们得出结论，未来的研究应该定义并使用评估形态、行为和运动相似性的指标，以检验我们关于自闭症儿童与发育正常（TD）儿童之间或自闭症儿童之间的假设。
